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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Could gambling save science? (1990)
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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How and When to Use ROC Curves and Precision-Recall Curves for Classification
27 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Why is Stubbs BBQ sauce for sale in a Prague grocery store?
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Step towards creating a rechargeable lithium-oxygen battery
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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A Bash and Python script for generating payloads that bypass virus scanners
27 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The Birth of Video Recording (1957)
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Find
27 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Climate change has doubled the frequency of ocean heatwaves
27 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defense of Ugly Paintings
27 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Hong Kong government granted US consulate a rare 999-year lease in the 1990s
27 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox
27 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Viewtron
27 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Service as a SKU (2012)
27 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The untold story of Notpetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history
27 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?
27 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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How Florida's Prisons and DRM Made $11.3M Worth of Prisoners' Music Disappear
26 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Blood uric acid level and IQ: a study in twin families (1984)
26 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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RubyKube Free Open-Source Crypto Platform
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Everybody Hates Uber
26 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
26 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
26 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Crypocurrencies crash
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Ask HN: I want to be a 40h/week intermediate developer.How do I stay employable?
26 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Photo School
26 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Winner’s Curse? On pace, progress, and empirical rigor [pdf]
26 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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IPOs Are Too Expensive and Cumbersome
26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything
26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Why stress causes people to overeat
26 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Copying already existing product and making it better
26 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Library of explanation and implementation of attacks on cryptographic algorithms
26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Google has plans to deprecate cookies over http
26 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Intel’s 9th generation processors rumored to launch October 1st with 8 cores
26 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells
26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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GraphQL, REST, RPC, Who Cares? Keep a Single Redux Store with Iguazu
26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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An Illustrated Old English Herbal (2017)
26 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Playing Around with Noise as Targets
26 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The Ideological Turing Test: How to Be Less Wrong
26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Two curious integrals and a graphic proof (2014) [pdf]
26 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Burning Man, a utopia for guests, was hell for many workers
26 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Cybersecurity Firm Finds Way to Alter WhatsApp Messages
26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Why neovim is better than vim (2015)
26 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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The batty, explosive history of bats in the military and a new idea
26 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Handshake: Decentralized Certificate Authority and Naming
26 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The Fallacy of Imposter Syndrome
26 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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MALD-X Advanced Air Launched Decoy Test Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
26 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Show HN: A chrome extension that fades out old links on HN/Reddit/News sites
25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Crafting Interpreters
25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON
25 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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First 1e6 integers represented as binary vectors indicating their prime factors
25 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Choosing open source project licenses when not legally-minded?
25 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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SF's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers can't afford homes
25 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Exploring Racket (2014)
25 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Physics engine in your JavaScript program
25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Can Elon Musk Tweet That? The SEC May Have an Opinion
25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Marvel Movies Will No Longer Be Released on Netflix Starting with Captain Marvel
25 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money? (2016)
25 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage
25 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The State of the Bestiary Is Stable
25 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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AI Chips: Past, Present and Future
25 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Data Engineering Resources
25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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TSFluff: tslint rules for the masochistic developer
25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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U.S. denying passports to American citizens along Mexico border
25 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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State-Sponsored Trolling: How Governments Are Deploying Disinformation
25 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Facebook exec: media firms that don't work with us will end up 'in hospice'
25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sort
25 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Building a better apple (2011)
25 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Princeton Science Library
25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The Age of Cretinism
25 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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A Disappointing New Problem with Geo-Engineering
25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Google struggles to contain uproar over China censorship plans
25 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Twitter Suspends Infowars' Alex Jones for Abuse
25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Show HN: Comp.fyi – Open compensation data by company and level
25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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The Berkeley Pit
25 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Why the Brain Hates Slowpokes (2015)
24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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The Translucent File Service (1988) [pdf]
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Lou Reed’s Archive, Coming to the New York Public Library (2017)
24 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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A "once-in-a-lifetime" shot of Mount Colima during a powerful eruption
24 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Now anyone can train Imagenet in 18 minutes
24 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Thorium power has a protactinium problem – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
24 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Security incident disclosure
24 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Show HN: An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller
24 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Embedded builtins
24 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The Soundtrack of Your Life: Muzak in the realm of retail theatre (2006)
24 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Muslim Woman Forced to Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search
24 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Blocking the rideshares
24 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Show HN: Nion, declarative API data management library built on Redux
24 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says – CNN
24 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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A modern CSS framework – versatile, well documented
24 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election
24 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Twitter thread reveals incredible collection of computing museum in Bozeman MT
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Slack Is Awful
24 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Newlib-nano – Embedded C library for smaller systems
24 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Ask HN: Best books or online courses to learn networking?
24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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As Cars Collect More Data, Companies Try to Move It All Faster
24 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Twitter did not suspend Alex Jones or Infowars
24 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Social Innovation from the Inside Out (2014)
24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Uber 'to focus on bikes over cars'
24 points • comment • aug 27, 2018